Every Friday you take

Gusington · October 05, 2018, 12:06:23 PM

The Cure...another one of my favorite bands of all time 😍

Crossroads · October 05, 2018, 12:35:48 PM

Quote from: Gusington on October 05, 2018, 12:06:23 PM
The Cure...another one of my favorite bands of all time 😍

One of these days I'll start this thread with that tune. It will be titled Friday I'm in FRIDAY

Gusington · October 05, 2018, 12:58:14 PM

'One of These Days' - great track by another top 5 band of mine. That's three for three!

CJReich46 · October 05, 2018, 01:22:21 PM

Nice. I love The Police. Andy Summers is one of my favorite guitar players, I love his chorus and delay textures. I think I still have Synchronicity on cassette.

Okay as for me (I'm off today and Saturday and Sunday)

Test drive- a 2001 Saab 9-5 with my Dad to see if it would be a good replacement for my ailing/terminal - PT Cruiser.

Success. Loan approved picking up on Monday.

Very happy, this puts this nagging burden off my shoulders, plus builds my credit.

Gaming?

I might be getting Assassin of Kings, and maybe Morrowind? (update: done- Yeah I folded)

But I have been playing the Enhanced edition adventures notably "Price of Neutrality" and "Side Effects"

also a few battles in Field of Glory II or something... not entirely sure.

I keep thinking on Stellaris but...I dunno.

Update: Cthulhu Chronicles- I am playing at Dr Gabhril and I just managed to get through the 8th adventure - Crimson Letters, and now it's the finale Blackwater Creek!

Dammit Carl! · October 05, 2018, 02:24:42 PM

Quote from: CJReich46 on October 05, 2018, 01:22:21 PM
Test drive- a 2001 Saab 9-5 with my Dad to see if it would be a good replacement for my ailing/terminal - PT Cruiser.

Wife still goes on about how much she loved/misses our old PT - however, she's now gaga over her Kia Soul and this is certainly not normal behavior for her.

PT died 'cause Mrs. overheated it once and it had an aluminum head...so...it was never the same after that. Managed to hump it for the winter season once that occurred but once it got warm outside again: more overheating. Very soon it got to the point where it would cost too much to fix vs. it's year of make / mileage so off to the bone yard. Not a bad car overall, in my experience.

Now Chevy HHRs are utter dogshit.

So for the weekend, I've got diddly doo planned per se. Water damaged carpet/walls downstairs in the computer area has kinda made gaming a no-go (maybe, I'll cave and put all that stuff back no doubt) until all that mess is taken care of. Reading time and binging on Shudder's horror movie catalog, I guess is in my near future.

Crossroads · October 05, 2018, 03:18:58 PM

Quote from: Dammit Carl! on October 05, 2018, 02:24:42 PM
Quote from: CJReich46 on October 05, 2018, 01:22:21 PM
Test drive- a 2001 Saab 9-5 with my Dad to see if it would be a good replacement for my ailing/terminal - PT Cruiser.

Wife still goes on about how much she loved/misses our old PT - however, she's now gaga over her Kia Soul and this is certainly not normal behavior for her.

PT died 'cause Mrs. overheated it once and it had an aluminum head...so...it was never the same after that. Managed to hump it for the winter season once that occurred but once it got warm outside again: more overheating. Very soon it got to the point where it would cost too much to fix vs. it's year of make / mileage so off to the bone yard. Not a bad car overall, in my experience.

Now Chevy HHRs are utter dogshit.

So for the weekend, I've got diddly doo planned per se. Water damaged carpet/walls downstairs in the computer area has kinda made gaming a no-go (maybe, I'll cave and put all that stuff back no doubt) until all that mess is taken care of. Reading time and binging on Shudder's horror movie catalog, I guess is in my near future.

That sounds like my Saab 9-5 (Wagon) I had and dearly loved. But at the end, having also overheated, with a cam belt needing a replacement, what not, I had to sell her last year. She went to a loving family with a DIY mechanic, something I am not, and hopefully enjoyes a new lease of life!

Cam belt, I said? Cam chain, it was. Quite a chore to have replaced, was the last draw :(

Huw the Poo · October 06, 2018, 03:21:05 AM

Warframe obviously. Why would I play anything else? :)

Anguille · October 06, 2018, 04:08:44 AM

Quote from: Gusington on October 05, 2018, 12:06:23 PM
The Cure...another one of my favorite bands of all time 😍

Yeah...love the Cure also.

Forgot: my son David is playing his first ever Campaign in a 4x by himself. As the Terran Khanate (he loves them) in Master of Orion CtS, the setting is of course on easy. So he may play some this weekend.

solops · October 06, 2018, 05:01:25 PM

This weekend and next week I am going to play Hog Hunter 2018 with my special 300 Blackout attachment. I may also try the new Predestination update and Polaris Sector.

Jarhead0331 · October 06, 2018, 05:04:12 PM

^lol...300 blackout "attachment"?

solops · October 06, 2018, 05:16:34 PM

Quote from: Jarhead0331 on October 06, 2018, 05:04:12 PM
^lol...300 blackout "attachment"?

Hrmmm...errr...well...the ATN IR scope CAN be connected to my PC via a USB cable, so that makes it an attachment...right?

Toonces · October 07, 2018, 10:40:34 AM

@ JD - man I friggin' hate Monaco. Worst. Track. Ever.

@ CJ - if you decide to boot up Morrowind, be sure to get the Complete Overhaul for it first. It greatly improves the graphics and fixes some bugs. Once you get into it, you really have to stick with it a while before it starts to get really good. Don't get discouraged early on. It took me about 3 tries to get into the game. Once I got to level 5 or so, the game really opened up, I bought into the story, and it sucked me in hard. Unfortunately, a computer crash killed my saved game, so I've yet to do it again. It's on my list of games to complete before I die, though!

So far I've logged a few hours in Cold Waters. I played a couple of missions in my 1984 campaign and then started a new 2000 China campaign. I loaded up Seawolf since I know I need all the help I can get in those shallow waters. First mission, I get ambushed by a surface action group. I'm in 350' of water...not good. After building the TMA a bit I realize I'm pretty much stuck with no way to evade, so I try something new. I get off two torpedoes early, but then also shoot of one of those decoy torpedo thingies at about 90 degrees off my heading towards the targets.

Sure enough, for a while it works. First torp hits the Luda (I think), and there's a patrol plane up there I didn't hear and he drops active buoys and then attacks the decoy. It was all going so well. But somehow he gets a wiff of me and then all hell breaks loose for about the next 45 minutes. The good news is the plane seems to run out of torps. I got one very minor hit with a depth charge, but then he seems to run out of those too. Life is good...until the helo joins in. Ugh.

Anyway, I managed to finally get away because I think they both ran out of weapons. I wrecked two tubes shooting off decoys at 35 knots and shot off at least half my noisemakers. Back to Guam I guess, assigned mission NOT completed. ::)

Toonces · October 07, 2018, 11:12:15 AM

On a different note, I've found myself hankering to rediscover some of the older games I enjoyed so much years ago. I'm reinstalling Harpoon ANW and hoping to work through some of the scenarios. In a perfect world, I'd love to find someone like-minded and try some multiplayer, something I've never done with Harpoon.

And...I'm really considering firing up WitP:AE again. I keep thinking of getting back into a good wargame, and WitP keeps calling my name. So many good hours with that game, I don't know why I've waited so long to get back into it again.

Toonces · October 08, 2018, 05:08:37 AM

Perhaps it would have been better if Mirth posted this....or Bison....or Banzai Cat....

But regardless....

In keeping with CJ's Morrowind post, dude, check this:

Jarhead0331 · October 08, 2018, 07:13:18 AM

^nah...screw them. LoL

We're lucky to have you.